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The Conurbation Community of Montpellier is ranked 3rd of the urban areas outside Paris and is highly receptive to innovation. In the last ten years, the city has seen France's highest growth in strategic jobs (more than a 30% increase according to INSEE, March 2002)
...an excellent situation, especially for the 80,000 students in Montpellier's 3 universities, engineering and business schools: ENSA, CNEARC, Ecole supérieure de Commerce, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, etc.

Ranked 3rd nationally in relation to its population, Montpellier is also an outstanding centre for research, which is focussed on three key areas:
- Information and communication technologies
- Medicine, pharmaceutical industry and biotechnologies
Agronomy and water management.

- The medical sector has risen out of the city's ancient traditions. A large number of leading-edge research centres and laboratories have set up here, confirming Montpellier's reputation in the field of public and private science and medicine. These contacts are of obvious benefit to students at Montpellier University I.

- 9 government research centres representing nearly 200 laboratories and employing nearly 10,000 people (BRGM, CEMAGREF, CIRAD, CNRS, IFREMER, INRA, INSERM, IRD and CEA in Marcoules).

- Private leading-edge research with, in particular, Europe's leading research centre belonging to the Sanofi -Recherche  group (900 people) and Ophtalmology laboratories: Chauvin - Bausch & Lomb, ABX-Horaiba, IBM - Grid Computing, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Dell.

- Those scientific sectors involving chemistry, semiconductors and computing have attracted a whole host of researchers, including internationally famous specialists.

- The biotechnologies sector is also growing rapidly with the emergence of companies specialising in the field of health, agronomy and the environment. With major institutions in contact with some twenty higher education and research establishments working in the food industry sector, particularly the tropical and Mediterranean sectors, Montpellier plays a major international role in North-South development and cooperation.